Meals On Wheels is seeking help from the community. Its mission is to provide nutritious meals, friendly visits, and safety checks to enable homebound senior citizens to live nourished lives with independence and dignity through the efforts of staff and volunteers.
Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteers to assist with meal deliveries. After Covid, its program has lost volunteers, and they were forced to drop meal deliveries to three days per week. Their goal is to return to five-day delivery schedule. The program is dependent on volunteer participation.
They deliver on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and would require that the meals be picked up at the Meals On Wheels kitchen area at Paragon Parkway. The program requires just a couple hours one day per week. An individual could also coordinate a group of friends, family, or co-workers for rotation of a route. They also have a need for substitute drivers for most all of the routes in order to give regular volunteers time for vacations or appointments. There are plenty of options and they would be happy to work with your schedule. The delivery schedule runs Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Volunteers arrive between the hours of 9:30-10:30, meals are delivered by noon.
In addition to volunteers to deliver meals, the program is also seeking donations. Donations to the program have decreased over the last few years and they are not able to serve as many individuals in need. Donating or perhaps sponsoring a recipient would allow us to move an eligible individual from the growing waitlist and onto the program. All donations are tax deductible.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact: Cheryl McCracken @ 828-356-2442 or email at [email protected].
To donate to the program, you may go online go here or mail your donation to: Haywood County Health and Human Services, 157 Paragon Pkwy, Suite 300, Clyde, NC 28721.
Written by the Haywood County Government.